Obituaries

<p><a href="/Portals/0/xNews/uploads/2016/12/9/Robin Sleight.jpg"> </a><a href="/Portals/0/xNews/uploads/2016/12/9/Robin circa 1953.jpg"> <img src="/Portals/0/xNews/uploads/2016/12/9/Robin circa 1953.jpg" alt="" width="269" height="220" /></a></p> <p>Robin Sleight, Honorary Secretary of the BMFA and Chairman of the British Association of Radio Control Soarers, died on December 2^nd, 2016.</p> <p>Robin had been a member of the BMFA for nearly sixty years starting like so many others with Keil … Read More

<p>It is my sad duty to report the death of recently retired BMFA Chairman, Chris Moynihan, who passed away at his home on 6^th February 2018 after a long battle with cancer.  Chris had been receiving treatment for some time but remained in good spirits and active as BMFA Chairman for as long as he … Read More

<p>John Frederick Reid ( Jack) 23-12-1932 -01-07- 2020</p> <p>By 1974 Jack was building models suitable for serious competition and indeed did try out for and successfully won a place on the Canadian F1B team to attend the World Championships to be held in Bulgaria in 1975.    In Bulgaria the Canadian team won the bronze … Read More

David Lloyd-Jones  –  1937 – 2022 David passed away on 31st March 2022. David was born in Aberystwyth on 10th January 1937. He leaves a son, Ian, a recently deceased daughter, Tracy, and two grandchildren, to whom he was totally devoted, Jessica and Joshua. He started aeromodelling at the age of 10, and he also … Read More

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"> </span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Robert Lawrence Meager, known to friends and family as Bob, was born on July 16, 1935 and lived in </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;">Sheffield</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: … Read More

<p>I am so sorry to report the sad passing of former owner of SLEC and member of Gravesend Aero-Modelling Club 'John Roper’, who passed away on 16th July 2015. <br /> John for many years revolutionised model building with his plastic modelling accessories making life a whole lot easier for us all, and his products … Read More

<p>Brian was not a nationally known figure in the aero modelling world other than a couple of mentions in some modelling magazines but was a tremendous example of someone who refused to let enormous obstacles stop him from enjoying life to the full. Brian was severely injured in a motorcycle crash at the age of … Read More

<p>On March 25^th, British aeromodelling lost not only one of its most celebrated national and international competitors but one of the very few remaining links to our beginnings before World War 2. Ray Monks built his first models at the age of seven or eight during the 1930’s- free flight, of course, there was nothing … Read More

<p>Richard (Dick) Place.</p> <p>It is on occasions like these that people often take stock of things that have happened in the past, and realise how quickly time, and years have slipped by.</p> <p>It was with great sadness that I report of the passing of one of the all-time quiet legends from our control line section … Read More

<p>After a long spell in a Perth Western Australia hospital, renowned free flight glider flier, Roy Yeabsley passed away on August 21st 2014.</p> <p>Roy was a member of the well known Croydon DMAC in the 40's and 50's, becoming one of the country's leading glider exponents of the time, his Revenge A2 design being nominated … Read More